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mikkov	2009-08-19 , 14:51
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Originally Posted by jeremiah

Virtual packages are not a problem, like Gnome-Games. What is a problem is if you called your application "frog" and you called your package "cupcake-2.0". This used to be a violation of debian packaging policy which said you needed to include at least part of the name of your package.

Are you sure about the debian policy? Source package e2fsprogs builds to e2fsck-static, libcomerr2, comerr-dev, libss2, ss-dev, libuuid1, uuid-runtime, libuuid1-udeb, uuid-dev, libblkid1, libblkid1-udeb, libblkid-dev, e2fsprogs-udeb, e2fslibs, e2fslibs-dev, e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-dbg, uuid-runtime-dbg, e2fslibs-dbg, libcomerr2-dbg, libss2-dbg, libblkid1-dbg, libuuid1-dbg and these are not virtual packages.

General users who are using application manager have never heard about source packages, so they are not a concern here. For the rest 'apt-get source libss2-dbg' downloads correct source just fine.

But I do agree that package naming should be consistent and reasonable. I just don't think that putting too strict automatic checks is a good idea.

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